Slobs Galore, By Roger Behra

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Slobs Galore

By

Roger Behra

Once upon a time in America people of all ages cared a great deal about how they acted toward each other and about their personal appearance, even when they dressed for work and especially when they dressed for Sunday church services. But that is not the case anymore. Slobiness has taken over-everywhere.

For those who are unaware, a slob is someone who is a rude, lazy, and/or carelessly person. It is impossible to not see a slob very regularly because the America culture is loaded with them. They are seen in your owen family, walking everywhere, at the malls, in grocery stores, on public transportation, in a churches at religious services. They put the spotlight on themselves by the way they dress, act, and speak. Not everyone is a slob, and the contrast is quite noticeable as a result.

Some slobs are educated well and admirably dressed. But the spotlight shines on them because their behavior is rude and impolite even though they are productive citizens. However, this group keeps growing. Some slobs are both rude and lazy, but decently dressed. They leach off everyone else, and their production is very limited. Far too many slobs are the whole package: they are rude, lazy, carelessly dressed, and avoid any type of worthwhile production, because they are very poorly educated to begin with. They are the winners of the most qualified slob award. This group keeps growing year by year. America is now loaded with them.

It does not take a genius to realize that all the various kinds of slobs intermingling in a culture have created a very bad cultural environment which keeps growing on annual basis. It is unprecedented.

When did the slob type of dress enter the picture, become commonplace, and add a very noticeable negative aspect to the American culture? It all started in the 1960´s. It pushed the nicely and stylishly dressed person almost completely out of existence. Replacing that was the “grunge chic” mode of dress. It started the present day slob fashion and dress mode. There is nothing more laughable than to see a very grown man out in public wearing genes with the crotch hanging down to nearly his knees, with spiked hair, and some tattoos showing. And to see young girls and middle-aged women wearing skin tight genes and half of their breasts showing for everyone to see is grossly immoral and unthinkable.

The big question is this: Are we doombed to have the immoral and slob look and general slob behavior forever? Well, the answer seems to be, yes, we are. The fashion industry will have to revert back to earlier times, and the people will have to completely come to their senses and change their thinking and attitudes. That is very unlikely. With the annual population increasing year after year, the propensity seems to be more of the same. Slobs and slob-behavior will always prevail. It has been going on for the past forty-five years. And there is no end in view!

R. B.
3-13-11